Issues of space and gender in home-based work: a case from Kerala, India

P. Neethi

Chapter 29 in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 481-493 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the experiences of a group of women workers involved in a highly-informal worker arrangement, namely home-based work for a food processing unit in Kerala, India. Understanding the role of space in home-based work provides insights into the everyday lives of workers, particularly regarding the intersection between space and gender. I analyse the relationship between space and gender to show how they are mutually formed and how gendered spaces are (re)produced (but also transformed) in the workers’ everyday lives. When the domestic space is transformed upon its overlap with work space to facilitate paid work, women evolve strategies to try to balance productive and reproductive work within this overlap. A geographical explanation of the formation of such gendered spaces under home-based production is laid out in this chapter, following which everyday labour relations and the framing of workers’ response strategies are presented.

Keywords: Home-based work; Gender; Space; Labour Geography; Food-processing industries; Kerala (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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